morphinapg Posted January 1, 2007 Posted January 1, 2007 I am having problems accessing my boot loader. I think the problems may be tied to the fact that The new drive (SATA) is being treated as the 2nd HDD and the old drive (IDE) is being treated as the first disk. I am able to set the boot order. I am trying to boot from the SATA partition 1. I have a quick XP boot disk. On this disk I have to choose Second Hard Disk, First Partition in order to boot XP. Is there any way to tell the BIOS to treat the SATA HDD as the first HDD and the IDE HDD treated as the 2nd HDD other than the boot order. I have a feeling it's either ignoring the boot order or FIXMBR and FIXBOOT are looking at the wrong drive or something. When I use MAP in the recovery console, the IDE drive is drive C:and the SATA is drive D: I want it the other way around. I already have them set up the right way in boot options. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted January 1, 2007 Posted January 1, 2007 Hello, Advanced BIOS features. Then go to Hard disk boot priority. Use the pgup and pgdown keys to move the boot order for the hard drives. You have been warned about using an underpowered PSU. :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefabe Posted January 1, 2007 Posted January 1, 2007 These are also the same hard drives you didn't do a fresh install on and just moved from your other system right? 1 has Vista and the ther has XP that you did an xp repair install on? Drives a little background http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72758 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted January 1, 2007 Posted January 1, 2007 Do you mean morphinapg that XP is installed on both drives, since both of them seem to have an active MBR? If that's the case it could be a bit tricky since BIOS tend to choose an IDE device in such a situation. Secondly Windows doesn't like to see a twin, another indentical operating system, so that's also something to be prepared for. To test whether MBR and the boot-loader work press when the system is posting. That should give you an option of choosing booting-device (temporary selection which doesn't intervene with BIOS settings). Does the "XP boot disk" you refer to have parameters to boot the system or it simply directs you to the correct MBR boot loader (or other partition having a boot-loader installed)? I don't know how to from MS console make for example a partition or MBR inactive. You could use GParted (live-cd) to check and change which drive or partition is active. What kind of setup are you trying to get? Two operating systems or one with a storage drive? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praz Posted January 1, 2007 Posted January 1, 2007 You should have posted that XP and Vista have been installed on their respective hard drives while the drives were in a different system. You were already told a fresh install of the operating systems were needed. People need all the facts when trying to help out. They will then know that they are probably wasting their time with this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphinapg Posted January 2, 2007 Posted January 2, 2007 Sorry guys after working all night long (till 5 AM) I used the Vista install disk, it installed the Boot Manager to the IDE drive, then I booted into Vista and took a while till I found a program that could edit the boot manager and redirected it to the SATA drive for XP. I know about the PSU, I'm waiting on the OCZ GXS 700W to arrive, and so far this one has worked for the most part, just not quite as good as I'd like. I should be getting it in a few days. All is working pretty good for the most part, but just to be safe, I'll be using the OCZ soon. I think it's just weird that the bootloader is on my 2nd hard drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctay Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 What program did you use? I'm having a very similar problem now.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphinapg Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 The only way I was able to get it running was I used the Windows Vista Install CD, I booted into that, I selected Repair Windows, then something like repair boot problems, and it did it automatically for me. I noticed that it placed the bootloader on the IDE drive (which is where vista is, and is not used for primary storage) Then I had to use EasyBCD (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1) to be able to access the bootloader settings and I changed the boot.ini for Windows XP to say "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional"" where rdisk(0) was changed to rdisk(1) so that it was choosing the the second hard drive (SATA 1) to boot XP. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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